[Madness]

It's a really interesting thread. Just went through it again.

And I had missed the Cartographic Apocalypse, which is fairly hilarious. Though, the No-Cartographer should have known that the Anti-Compass would set about confounding those maps closest to him.

[Wilshire]

Any thoughts on map-making for 2016 Somnambulist?
Now that you're something like a semi-legit artist with regular commissions, maybe you'll not have time for the old TSA community.

[Somnambulist]

Something like a semi-legit artist?  Stop trying to butter me up, you!  You know that kind of talk makes me weak in the knees!

Maybe more map stuff when TGO comes out.  I kinda gave up on the forest option, cuz it's just me making shit up, and it was bogging my system down, took forever to make/save edits.

Not have time for TSA?!  I'm on here, like, several times a day.  I just can't comment on most stuff, cuz, you know, like, reasons. 

[Wilshire]

Its true! You're the regular artist for GdM right? And that the other big thing. Thats... 2 things! I think semi-legit is a mostly fair assessment, albeit a bit ostentatious I admit.

No love lost for the trees on my end. Map is better without them.

[profgrape]

"Something like a semi-legit artist" needs to go on your LinkedIn profile, Som

[Somnambulist]

lol Yeah, I'm thinking of changing all my online handles to 'Semi-Legit'.  Kinda has a ring to it, almost street cred level.

[Wilshire]

It has a sense of real honesty about it.

[mrganondorf]

New maps of the far north from The Great Ordeal!
https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/orbital-corpses/#comment-44528

EDIT: A few features that strike particularly...

- Dagliash is now bordered by 5 mountains.  The western-most, Antareg, perhaps looks like a volcano?  The center mountain, Oloreg, looks mysteriously craggy.  (Btw, I might try to project 'mysteriously craggy' on Monday to my students and see how they react).

- Gosh, I'm excited to find out what's so appalling about "The Field Appalling!"

- Bakker went to the trouble of drawing Ishterebinth just so.  I guess I hadn't thought of it as having a mountainous aspect until now.

- Really curious as to why Bakker stuck the "Spear Fens" in the map.  Perhaps that will be notable in case of a retreat later?  Zeumi ships flee the north after the Great Ordeal is vanquished carrying a wounded and half-crazed Kellhus.  Blown off course, the ship becomes fixed in the Spear Fens and the Surviving Ordeal fight to escape the Swamp Sranc.

[Hirtius/Pansa]

Wasn't the destruction of the Ketyai of the South at Irsulor?—with a circumflex over the u.  Is this one of those weird Kuniuric to Sheyic things or perhaps, more simply, a typo?

Is Urokkas name-dropped in The False Sun?

[Wolfdrop]

I had wondered the very same thing though not as much for Ursulor as Domiot vs Domyot etc.

I asked RSB on his latest blog post and his response was that it was intentional giving the reason as "lack of naming convention is part and parcel of ancient scholarship."

Though I pointed out Harnilias to Harnilas and that one is just a mistake!

[H]

- Dagliash is now bordered by 5 mountains.  The western-most, Antareg, perhaps looks like a volcano?  The center mountain, Oloreg, looks mysteriously craggy.  (Btw, I might try to project 'mysteriously craggy' on Monday to my students and see how they react).

I don't think it's actually a volcano, the circle isn't a caldera, per se, but is rather the circle that shows the location of Dagliash.  Dagliash seems to be built on the ruins of Nogaral, which was raised on the ruins of Viri.

Nogaral stood upon the westernmost summit, Iros, a mountain that was a mass grave. Little more than ramp of blunt granite, it climbed from the River toward the Sea, where it ended in scarped confusion.

From the False Sun.

[Somnambulist]

I was updating my master map file with the info from the new maps Scott posted.  I deleted the Urokkas I had in there to replace them with more accurate versions, and accidentally deleted ALL THE HILLS, ON THE WHOLE MAP.  I made more changes and saved the document before I realized my mistake.  Then I was like:



After much anguish, I found a backup on my laptop, and I was like:



My morning so far.

[Madness]

Som, did you see this I posted in the Great Bakker Review Ordeal thread?

The Maps of R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse

EDIT: Also, lmao .

[Somnambulist]

Thanks, Madness.  I did see that.  Today a map, tomorrow... the world! ( I watched a lot of Pinky and the Brain in a past life.)

[Madness]

I believe we talked in this very thread about Cartographers running the world .